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Thank you to all who replied to my thread. Cruizer has been with me since I was less than ten years old, and so his passing feels like the end of an era. I have been crying some bit for the past two days, and all of your beautiful comments have really been helping me. I can’t believe that this thread has received as many replies as it did in such a short period of time, it even received a reply from Leo himself. I’ve said this before, but I view this forum as an extension of my friends/family, especially the more consistent frequent members. From the bottom of my heart, Thank you.

@Princess Arabia I think this thread is good enough. I view this forum as an extension of my family/friends, so I wanted to share this moment. Cruizy was there when my grandpa was still alive, who saw Cruizy through Skype calls as he lived in Russia, so this cat was a historical family relic.

I’m of course very devastated by this loss. We adopted Cruizy when he was 1 years old and I’m 22 years now. So you do the math of how old I was when we adopted him. Cruizy was found by my mom’s coworker when he was less than one year. He was found abandoned in a field of a farm, covered in scratches and barbed wire. The coworker attempted to raise Cruizy, but he was actively terrorizing the other cats she owned, so much so that the other cats were getting depression. So to see if the other cat’s depression could be alleviated, she gave my family Cruizy. This was supposed to be a temporary thing, but he later grew on us. Cruizy was with me for the bulk of my childhood. Through all of my life problems and successes. From middle, high school, through college, I remember Cruizy. When Cruizy’s heath was getting worse, a day before he died, I sat with him in the basement alone until midnight. When we first took him home, he sat in an alcove (or nook) in the laundry room for days. I had to lure him out with meat. But right before he died, he went back to the same nook in the laundry room, where he hasn’t been for years, where I would later discover his body. Pic above is the alcove in the laundry room. 2011 - April 4th, 2025

Using Leo's videos, Understanding Impermanence and What Is Death to cope. @Leo Gura if you're reading this, which videos do you recommend for this situation?

I just did a google search, and it turns at Bashar (Darryl Anka) is of Lebanese descent. Just like me! Cool.

The number one burning question I've always had of China, is its Communist Party, and their ideology. They liberalized because they didn't have the productive capacity to enact proper socialism as China before the revolution was feudal and agricultural. But do they actually have a plan to achieve socialism? From what I can infer, the CPC has no intentions of communal and employee ownership of the means of production, because by their definition of socialist, they already are socialist, with Chinese characteristics, of course. Current Chinese policy is about "perfecting" and "deepening" the policies they have already implemented. This means more markets, more private ownership and more export of capital. Central planning has long ceased to exist and has been replaced by a system where the market is "decisive" (not the only force, but by the CPC's own admission "decisive"). CPC members don't see China ever becoming socialist because by their own definition it already IS socialist. They don't see themselves as passing through a retreat like the Soviets did with the NEP, they consider the current system to be a superior socialist system to the central planning they previously practiced. In the minds of CPC members, all they need to do is keep "developing" and they are set. But don't blame Xi for this. All he is doing is continuing a process that Deng Xiaoping set into motion and every General Secretary since has followed. It was Deng who set off on the "Southern Tour" that kickstarted further marketisation reforms when they stalled after causing economic and social crisis. It was Jiang Zemin who declared the "Socialist Market Economy" and unleashed the firesale of public assets in the 90's. It was Hu Jintao who started the "stablity maintanence" and "harmonious society" programs that now make it impossible for Marxists in China to criticise Opening and Reform. The mid to long term goal of the CPC is embodied in the "Centenary Goals". By 2050 China is supposed to have become a "strong, democratic, civilized, harmonious, and modern socialist country". Based on what those terms mean in China today and their silence on exploitation, I personally don't think the CPC has any intention of droping market forces, exploitation or private ownership within our lifetimes, if ever.

@Leo Gura Do you consider Arnold Schwarzenegger to be part of this book saturation problem? I'm asking because I want to read his latest book, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life. Fun fact, did you know that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels spent approximately 30 years working on Das Kapital. A Critique of Political Economy, with the first volume published in 1867 and the remaining two volumes edited and published posthumously by Friedrich Engels. Currently reading it right now, and its so in depth, technical, and difficult to understand, with its use of mathematical equations and all. Super profound though, I'm learned a lot about commodity production; what is a commodity, the dual nature of labor, elementary or accidental form of value, etc... Currently reading chapter II about exchange, the social relation of exchange, role of money, the double character of commodities, and more. The point that I'm trying to make is that this is some serious value that you cannot get within 30 days using a ghost writer.

The problem is that South Korea is a hyper-competitive society which places working oneself to the bone above spending time with family and human happiness. South Koreans from birth throughout their educational system are brainwashed to be as competitive as possible, and because they're so squeezed for time in this wage-slavery system, they don't socialize and don't have time for family. The labor rights and laws in that country are atrocious. For a better resource, I recommend this documentary.

Lol, if only Leo drank alcohol, for which I'm sure he doesn't. Which is quite sad, because piña coladas are delicious.

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According to the SDi founders, a brief history of time by Stephan Hawking is an example of Yellow.

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I'm being serious, Leo should team up with Wiley and make this into a real book.

Leo as Lenin.

Leo as Lenin

Considering all of the criticizing Leo has done of Elon, and especially of Trump, his head is going to explode when he sees this.

Here's a ghiblification of my forum profile picture, which is a picture of me btw. #FaceReveal

I'm going to hop of the Ghiblify trend train. The second image is from one of the couch blogs. The source for the first page is on the 'About' section of this website.

I'm just curious. Because Leo in the past has had not nice things to say about Sports Fans. Especially in his What is Wisdom video where he openly calls them fools. He also said in his Life, It's all a mind game! video that the Olympics was "basically a cult". I want to know what other people here, specifically higher conscious people do for fun. And what do spiritual and awakened people think of the NFL, and of the sports culture in America. Edit: Americans only 🇺🇸. Non-Americans are allowed to reply to this thread, but to answer the poll questions by selecting one of the buttons above is off limits and only for Americans, for obvious reasons. Because NFL and the Super Bowl is rather exclusive to American culture.

Two extra vids, really shows the brutality of the situation, and of human survival.

Hmmm... In a Democracy, the ruler has more "keys". What is Trump doing to all the Federal Departments and agencies again?

For context, skip to 54:30 of the video below. https://www.actualized.org/insights/why-the-media-is-corrupt I remember Leo in his blog video about why the media is corrupt, where he was talking about bias. How as long as someone is identified with something, then it is impossible to look at reality from an unbiased perspective. A man, a Democrat, an American, or even a human, as long as someone is identified with one of these limit and finite forms, it is impossible to look at reality objectively. But then Leo veered into a very strange direction, when he said that innocent culture was not innocent at all, and was programming us with certain metaphysical and epistemological assumptions. So those Disney movies I watched as a kid? I show them to my child. Because I loved those Disney movies! That's where the programming starts. And those same Star Wars I watched as a kid? I show them to my child. And the same University I went to? I send my child to that same University! Leo, what's wrong with that? Isn't this just innocent and harmless culture. Which, apparently, it isn't. It's programming us with certain epistemological, existential, and metaphysical assumptions. What? How? How are Disney movies doing this? So if I have a kid in the future, I should not show them the childhood movies that I watched as a child. What existential assumptions could I possibly get from watching Soyuzmultfilm [Союзмультфи́льм], or Disney, and them showing it to my future child?

Do you guys think that the casualty numbers the IDF is releasing are accurate? I mean the IDF counting their own losses.

Serious question for those who know a thing or two about military tactics, maybe Israeli people here who have done mandatory IDF service. But are the Hamas Yassin RPG's actually effective against IDF Merkava tanks? Because Hamas keeps publishing these GoPro footages where they hit tanks with RPG rounds. But does that actually do anything? Tanks are really heavily fortified, and Hamas rarely shows the aftermath of vehicles they hit. Do these RPGs actually decommission tanks? Or is it just for show?